>>>the actual crime he did commit.

He said he would be willing to kill to get some shoes. That's not a crime. That's a joke. Like if I said, "I could kill for some ice cream."

>>> gun proliferation is great (despite murder rates two orders of magnitude higher than civilised countries)

The USA rather stupidly classifies self-defense as "murder". Other countries do not. I don't know why the U.S. government does that but it taints the statistics. For example an old WW2 vet recently heard a guy break into his basement, grabbed a gun, and waited to see if the guy would be stupid enough to attack. Well he did, so the WW2 vet shot him. It was ruled "justifiable homicide". And hence adds to the USA murder/homicide statistic.

>>>All it takes is one mistake and you have a loose cannon and a front page news article like this one.

This is why my virus update is off. I update about once a month, and I only accept OLD updates not newer ones. So if I had Sophos on my computer I would be having zero problems right now.

I never could figure-out what that 486 Turbo button was for. I didn't notice any difference in speed.

>>>I have no idea who those guys are, and have no interest to know.

You have no idea who Jerry Sandusky is? The guy who was just convicted of child molestation & brought down the Penn State football team (they are suspended for ~5 years and must pay a huge fine, as well as having all their scores for the last ten years erased). A major news story that was at the top-of-the-hour for weeks. Don't you watch TV? Or read the news? Like... ever??? Wow.

As for your claim "Communications are private, and should be private," that is not true for emails that are owned by your employer. Your emails that you post from your work account are Not private. Neither are the emails that Mann posted from his work account, which are owned by His employer: the government.

YOU HAVE NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY when posting emails from a work-owned computer. In the case of academics it's even worse: Their computers are paid-for and owned by the government. There is no reason why their emails should be protected from view by the Attorney General who has reason to believe a crime was committed. *We* would not be able to claim a right to privacy over our work emails.

>>>If someone is accused a specific wrongdoing which falls under the law

You mean like child molestation? No more protection for the PSU academics. Okay. Well PSU employee Mann is *also* accused of wrongdoing.

>>>well, tough shit, you don't get to annoy people just because you don't like them or their ideas.

It's been well-known for decades that you don't have privacy over Emails which belong to your *employer* not you. State college academics' emails belong to the employer, which is the government, which is subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

>>>Momma Mary is going to tell you a little bit about history. In the 40s and 50s the top tax bracket was over 90%, that's right, if you made $10,000,000 you only took home, $1,000,000, but wealthy people did just fine anyway.

Dear Momma Mary who likes to talkdown to people as if they are idiots:

You. Are. Completely wrong. First off these are BRACKETS not flat tax. A person would not take-home 10% of 10 million. He would take home ~70% of the first $100,000, ~60% of the next 400,000, ~50% of the next 500,000, and so on. I cannot believe you did not realize that???

Furthermore: In the 50s, 60s, and 70s there were FAR more deductible expenses (and no AMT). Wealthy persons deducted almost everything. The net result was the *effective* tax rate was actually 2% lower in the 50s, 60s, 70s than it was in the 90s and 2000s.

Don't make the dumb mistake of confusing the listed tax rate with the actual tax rate. MY listed bracket is around 50% (last I checked) but after I take my deductions I pay far less than that. More like 30%.

Effective tax rate has hovered around 25-30%, even for millionaires, for a long long time. Today's rate is about 2% higher than the 1950s effective tax rate.

>>>we conduct our business in Office formats. Having LibreOffice do a halfass job of reading them is unacceptable.

Would be nice if you would learn to read. Let me help : "MS Office 2013 Pushing HOME USERS Toward Subscriptions 110". In other words your post is irrelevant.

The people who manage this agency are on a powertrip. They are the "nosy neighbor" types who love to spy on other people, and being in control of the TSA (and the overall Dept. of Homeland Security) allows them to do what they love to do. Be nosy. They nudebody scan you at airports, rifle through your luggage, do random spots checks along highways, at bus depots, and train stations. They've even surprised citizens at post offices and malls and public parks by demanding IDs and performing warrantless searches of backpacks, purses, et cetera. They've detained & arrested people who were doing nothing wrong except posting on facebook.

It's about time that we Americans Stand Up and start saying, "No. Do you have a warrant? Then no you may not search me at the mall, in the train station, in my car, or pour shit in my drinks." As the ACLU recently told citizens of DC:
No warrant; no search.
No warrant; no search.

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Did you copy this from the Ubuntu web forum? I swear I've seen this same conversation over there in regards to Linux.

>>>If Obama doesn't thump some Arab leader with a big stick, he's an apologist pussy. If he does thump some Arab leader with a big stick, why he's a warmongering Congress defier.

I had the same opinion of Bush.
Killing a bunch of innocent people is not justified. War, like pulling your gun from you holster, is only justified as an act of self-defense (kill, or else you'll be killed). The decision to go to war should lie with the People's Representatives in congress, because it is the people who have to fight & die in the war. And later payoff the gigantic bill.

>>>You're an idiot. Umm, what if you're not launching a nuclear war? Ooops, that ship is USELESS. Again, you're an idiot.

Oh look. My anon. coward stalker is back. (See my signature.) And to answer you question: Carry non-nuclear Tomahawks in your arsenal like the boomer submarines do. Also ship-to-air defensive missile, so the antiradar missile cannot get anywhere near your ship.

>>>Or, you can tell the fanatics shouting "Death!" "Can't we all just get along." while you grovel.

Yes. Because 0.1% of the country is nuts, that justifies killing the other 99.9% of innocent persons, including children. Can you imagine if Timothy McVeigh had bombed the Eiffel Tower instead of the OKC building? By your logic the French are justified to start dropping bombs and killing people in the U.S.

>>>They cannot perform surveillance.

Yeah actually they can. Tomahawks come with cameras too for surveilling the terrain.

>>>They cannot defend themselves.

They don't need to. They are cheap and disposable. Just like bombs, except self-piloting. I really don't see why we need human pilots anymore when we have missiles that can deliver themselves to the target w/o human help.

>>>They cannot adapt to changing targets (ie if the ground target manages to get airborne, you have to have a completely different missile to take it out).

That's why you launch both Tomahawks and ship-to-air missiles at the same time. The 'hawks takeout the ground and the air missiles takeout any airplanes that managed to get in the air.

>>>They have no linger time.

Also false. Tomahawks can fly for hours-and-hours on their cruise engines. (Honestly why did you even post? You demonstrated you know little about modern missile technology.)